These are the main news from Malta as reported by the Maltese main news portals.
Two people have been taken to hospital following a collision between a car and a truck in Triq Birzebbugia, Ħal Far. TVM
Brian Tonna and Karl Cini, the Nexia BT officials at the centre of the Panama Papers allegations, have filed a complaint with the Information and Data Protection Commission asking for a blog post by Daphne Caruana Galiza to be taken down. The request was based on the images of the passport of the two. In his response, the widower of the slain blogger argued that the complaint was based on a law which came into force on May 28, 2018, over a year after the blog post and images were published. Times of MaltaNewsbook
Justice Minister Owen Bonnici has defended his decision to order the removal of the memorial to Daphne Caruana Galizia at the Great Siege monument, arguing that activists who used the site as a tribute to the assassinated journalist appropriated themselves of a national memorial commemorating a historic victory. The Malta Independent
Activists from Occupy Justice said no barriers would stop their quest for truth, justice and freedom as they laid flowers and candles at the entrance of the Justice and Culture Ministry this afternoon. Shift News
PN says the government’s actions in repeatedly removing the memorial was a reflection of “the Labour government’s contempt for freedom of expression”. Net News
The Court of Appeal has overturned former Kerygma director Fr Charles Fenech’s guilty verdict for abusing a vulnerable woman, and reduced his sentence to one week in prison, suspended for six months. MaltaToday / One
